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squash² Audio Help   (skwŏsh, skwôsh) Pronunciation Key
v.   squashed, squash·ing, squash·es

v.   tr.

To beat, squeeze, or press into a pulp or a flattened mass; crush. See Synonyms at crush.
To put down or suppress; quash: squash a revolt.
To silence or fluster, as with crushing words: squash a heckler.

v. intr.

To become crushed, flattened, or pulpy, as by pressure or impact.
To move with a splashing or sucking sound, as when walking through boggy ground.

1. The act or sound of squashing.
2. The fact or condition of being squashed.
A crushed or crowded mass: a squash of people.
Sports A racket game played in a closed walled court with a rubber ball.
Chiefly British A citrus-based soft drink.

adv. With a squashing sound.

[Middle English squachen, from Old French esquasser, from Vulgar Latin *exquassāre : Latin ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + Latin quassāre, to shatter, frequentative of quatere, to shake; see kwēt- in Indo-European roots.]

squash'er n.

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